The Sweet Service Award goes to the Traffic Department in the Civic Centre, and staff member Tamlyn Spielman, who assisted me in getting a replacement Motor Vehicle Registration form for a scooter, which I had sold, and for which I needed the form to hand over to the purchaser. Despite having recently replaced my driver’s license due to theft, and having been issued with a new license for my car, there was no record of my FICA-registration on the system. It was also not good enough to show my driver’s license as identification! I was so annoyed that I threw a Charlize Theron fit at the counter. When I calmed down, I realized that I had a proof of residence in my phone. A Manager was called, and she must have taken pity on me, allowing me to get the form without the ID Book and the proof of residence!
Tag Archives: Charlize Theron
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 12 May
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* Kleine Zalze has won the accolade of Best White Wine for its 2013 Family Reserve, a bush vine Chenin Blanc. at the Concours Mondial de Bruxelles. The winning wines were evaluated by more than 320 judges from 50 countries.
* Actors Sean Penn and Charlize Theron are to wed in South Africa, in Soweto in August, it is speculated Continue reading →
Bree Street praised as ‘Cape Town’s hippest block’ by Wall Street Journal!
American writer and Cape Town resident Sarah Khan is a good ambassador for Cape Town, even through she recently praised Durban and helped it make 7th on the New York Times‘ 2015 52 Places to go! Writing recently for the Wall Street Journal, she has praised Bree Street, with the headline ‘Bree Street: Cape Town’s hippest block’! We recently listed 26 restaurants on Bree Street, Cape Town’s hip foodie street.
Khan introduces the article by describing Bree Street as ‘…buzzy new businesses behind spruced-up Victorian-era facades. This once quiet stretch is suddenly South Africa’s hippest address, courtesy of a host of stylish restaurants and boutiques’. She
highlighted five businesses, symbolising stylish addresses on Bree Street: Continue reading →
WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 26/27 July
Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines
* While international sporting events boost tourism to South Africa, our country has a great potential to increase tourism spend. Two constraints to tourism income have been identified: the perceptions about crime, created through media reports; and the negative publicity relating to the new Immigration Regulations, making it far more onerous for international tourists to visit our country, especially if they have children.
* Charlize Theron and Sean Penn were seen at the Mount Nelson Hotel with co-star Javier Bardem on Friday evening, after which they had dinner at Duchess of Wisbeach in Sea Point. Filming of their ‘The Last Face‘ movie is reported by the Weekend Argus to commence next month. Wedding bells are said to be ringing for a South African wedding of the couple later this year.
* The Sunday Times reported today that a number of other top actors are in Cape Town to film movies, including Sacha Baron Continue reading →